Tumbling tower a4000

[Will-i-am]

Well let's see...In the never-ending tale of the tower that couldn't we have the following. After getting various IP numbers from the PC to plug into the tower so I could reach thru the router to the WWW, I discovered that I needed a registered version of Miamidx to make Genesis work. Well, I don't have that, nor can I go online to get one, because I can't go online until I get one. Soooo I thought I'd DL Amitcp and try that stack. Got the files, burned onto a CD and tried the CD drive. No can do...says the CD drive isn't mounted. No apparent reason for this, wires okay etc...it was working before I connected the 2nd HD, so I tried without the 2nd HD. No change, no CD drive. I also noted that upon boot-up the screen shows a requestor asking for volume Env:, but then it changes it's mind and boots anyway. So now I figure I'll use Cross Dos to transfer the Amitcp files sneaker net from the PC to the tower. No can do. says the DF0: is not mounted, again, no apparent reason. I try booting from the OS3.9 CD...no luck. the emergency boot floppy disk...no luck. I tried the older 3.1 emergency boot floppy. No luck. So, I have 2 scsi HDs and they boot fine. No floppy, no CD and it seems something odd about my ENV: volume...The tower is using a Cyberstorm PPC/060 card. I do note that the cable to the floppy shows a cheesy repair w/scotch tape covering some bare section of wire. otherwise, any ideas? I'm tired of this. I want the damn thing to boot and have all of it's parts work. I'm about to install a Toaster and I would like to be able to use this A4066 ethernet card, otherwise it's a cute amiga doorstop. :-?

[Thomas]

I discovered that I needed a registered version of Miamidx to make Genesis work

That's nonsense. You need a MiamiDx keyfile to get a full version of MiamiDx or you need a Genesis keyfile to get the full version of Genesis. There is no need for MiamiDx for Genesis or vice versa.

You can go online with the demo version of any TCP stack you like (Miami,  MiamiDx, Genesis, AmiTCP, TermiteTCP etc.) as long as you don't need ADSL features. ADSL only works with the full version of MiamiDx.

As for the CD-ROM check the CD0 file in Devs/DosDrivers if it points to the correct Device and Unit.

As for ENV, copy the original Startup-Sequence from your original Workbench disk and never again edit it. As a more advanced user you might search the Assign ENV: RAM:ENV command and check that no command which is earlier in Startup-Sequence than that tries to access environment variables.

Bye,
Thomas

[Piru]

ADSL only works with the full version of MiamiDx.

It depends on the ADSL type, iirc PPOE requires registed MiamiDX, bridged ADSL works without.

[Will-i-am]

yeah, but see....what we have here is a tower that 1)will not boot from a floppy because it does not seem to know it has a floppy and 2) boots from a HD but will not take info from a CD because it doen't seem to know it has a CD drive anymore. So copying various key files or programs is a difficult task. I have finally found where I hid the A4000T booklet so I can go about making sure the addresses and such are okay and not conflicting. If I can understand the rather terse explanations.When I boot up Miami, which by the way I got INTO the tower thru the CD drive when it could read the CD drive...so I know the CD drive works, or worked at one time.....Miami wants sanami.device before working and wants me to either send off a registration request by mail(too long a wait) or online, which is the point of the whole damn issue. How to get hooked up to the router/cable modem and then online in order to DL various progs I would like to try on the Cyberstorm/PPC setup.

[Will-i-am]

As for ENV, copy the original Startup-Sequence from your original Workbench disk and never again edit it..

Nuther point I should have mentioned. I never willingly touched ENV in the course of all this. Never re-installed WB OS 3.9, nothing. Are you saying I should, once I get it to read from floppies, take the startup from the backup and put it in? And then what would I do in order to avoid altering the ENV? That I am not sure of, if you are saying that by adding the 2nd HD I modified the startup and need to de-modify it? duh, I am so dumb suddenly. I used to think I knew Amigas but now I think it was the A2000 OS1.3 that I knew. Now the A4000s are suddenly acting like "computers" instead of girlfriends. Wait a minute....oh yeah, my old girlfriends used to act like this sometimes, too. sigh.